Newport High School - Newportian Yearbook (Newport, KY)

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,,..........,........................................... THE NEWPORTIAN

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fx 1 .: i i ' 3.5 I lllf i i Hl'I'l l'IIi EliMIili'l' G RAKIE E. HAR PER Dedication For this issue of the Newportian we are deeply indebted to Miss Hettie Ermert and Miss Grace Harper whose advice and kindly assistance made possible this record of Schoolday memories for both graduates and undergraduates of Newport High School. It is our wish that your ardent approval of this book will in part repay them for the many serv' ices they have so willingly rendered in both our and your behalf. 3 N

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KT .- U tif X 1. ll ,L i t 1. .Z M E., History of Newport High School 1872 a school building was erected on an old cemetery lot at the corner of Ringgold and Columbia Streets. The building was of brick, three stories in height, containing one large lecture ' ' room, ten school rooms, and four classrooms with a hall running the entire length of the building in each story. The building was sur- mounted with a handsome cupola containing a town clock. The City Council donated one half of the expense of purchasing the clock ami putting it in position. The cost of the construction of this building amounted to 540,000 From 1860 up to 1874, a period of fourteen years, not a single class graduated from Newport High School. In this year sixty-one students enrolled, twenty-eight withdrew, leaving a total number of thirty-three. The faculty at this time consisted of Mary L. Ross and Christine Connelly with the assistance of Superintendent W. H. Jones. This building was used as a high school for forty-four years. In 1926 it was tor11 down and a new one, consisting of thirty-three class- rooms, two offices, a physics and chemistry laboratory, a fully equipped commercial department, library, a large study hall with seating capacity of a hundred and fifty students, an Industrial Arts Department, Domes- tic Science Department, and a Cafeteria which will accomodate approx- imately three hundred students, was constructed in its place. The corner- stone was laid in 1927 amid a very ilnpressive ceremony. .ludge A. M. Caldwell, of the Campbell County Circuit Court was tl1e principal speaker of the occasion. When we entered school in the Fall of 1927 there were twenty-one high school teachers, and fifteen junior high school teachers, besides the Superintendent, A. D. Owens, and his secretary, Prof. P. L. Hamlett. Principal, and Prof. J. L. Cobb, Asst. Principal. In 1928 a gymnasium was constructed in the rear of the school. These buildings were constructed by Fred C. Rasuch and Carl Rasuch, General Contractors of the Lehigh Construction Company. The total cost of the high school building alone was f1i244,755.ti8, the total cost of the gymnasium amounted to f556,808.53. Three courses are offered: college preparatory, commercial, and scientific. Seven regular class periods run for forty-five minutes, short- ened on special occasions, but regularly the high school is in session from eight A. M. till two P. M., with thirty minutes for lunch. HE. ls. H., 13036. D